Grave Digga

We are, gathered here today

To say goodbye to the dearly de-parted

Yo he was bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

He was bound to dig his grave

You pushed up daisy's more than once in your life

You might as well meow because you played your nine lives

So here's a shovel

Dig like a digger

And don't shoot your yaps cause I might pull the trigger

I seen it happen to a brother who was rappin'

Frontin' real fat, and kept a crowd clappin'

But now he's loose, lost all his juice

Once a big star now his necks in a noose

He couldn't hack it

The fame and the glory

He popped a lot of shit, but that's another story

I mean he blew up, there wasn't nothin' he couldn't do

The only problem now is that his head blew up too

Once platinum and now he can't sell a tune

I wonder how it feels to have your life go "kaboom"

Reminiscin' how it was back in the days

Before the front

When his records got airplay

Started off hard

Ended up soft

You should of stayed street till you paid your cost

My record company can kiss

My manager can lick

And my boys...can get my dilznick

Now that's the attitude you love and you live by

You used to eat steaks now you're beggin' for a french fry

You didn't know but I already figured

That one day someday

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to dig his grave

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Yo, he was bound to dig his grave

You're mr. Grave digga, your mind is like a shovel

Every time I turn around it's diggin' you deeper into trouble

I don't understand some of the stuff that you do kid

Tryin' to get yours, makin' moves that are stupid

You see life is like one big comedian

Who's tryin' to make you laugh but you still don't know the half

Everyday, all day, you got's to learn the hard way

(You'll never play me)

Yeah, that's what they all say

You play the tough role as if you are thorough

(I'm the mack baby. A king like a pharaoh)

At least you thought you were until you met this girl

That you wanted to be your queen

Now you find out what I mean

You push up because you really want the lay

Down to one knee cause you ain't too proud to beg

She kicks it back and everything goes swell

Next thing you know you're in the back of a hotel

You're ready to hit the skins and everything is gettin' hectic

So you start your tactics without a prophylactic

It's too late to cry now

She was livin' foul, you can kiss your ass goodbye now

She had a.I.d.s, you ready made a blunder

(Down with o.p.p.!)

Now you're down six feet under

All just because you had a girl that wanted to stick ya

Give this man a shovel, make way for the grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to dig his grave

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Bound to be a grave digga

Yo, he was bound to dig his grave

I take walks through my underground graveyard

Jumpin' over tombstones of those who are hard

You picked your casket by givin' out ass kicks

To those who didn't know about my ghetto tactics

You stuck and robbed, cause that's the way you live

And once in a shootout you caught a little kid

Look out my window saw you pimpin' through my area

Real hard

And makin' people scared of ya

But there was one who was simply not havin' it

Pulled out a shank and cold started stabbin' ya

And now you wanna change the way you were livin'

Shoulda, coulda, woulda

But ya didn't

Think about how many lives could be saved

If people would behave instead dig their own graves

I try to sit you down, listen child, let me tell you now

But you're livin' foul

That's why you're where you're at now

So there you have it

You're just another name

In the ain't-that-a-shame grave digga hall of fame

One day you're rich, next you're beggin' for a quarter

Don't you know your mouth gets you in hot water?

There's one thing that I have to say to you

Watch what you say don't watch what you do

Cause if you don't then you'll be just like the next nigga

(How you livin' huh?)

Like a grave digga